Erik Jarl
Erik Jarl is a Swedish electronic musician who records as Jarl. He works with an entirely analogue setup of synthesizers, sequencers, oscillators and effect units, building long, hypnotic and psychedelic pieces close to dark ambient. He was a founding member of the post-industrial group IRM and has also taken part in Kaiten. Much of Jarl's recent work appears on the Polish label Zoharum. Hyperacusis deals with an oversensitivity of hearing he lives with himself, and Mind Rotation (2022), part of a series on human psychology, follows a mind sliding into psychosis.
Neurotransmitters-Sphere-Music
*200 copies limited edition* "Neurotransmitters-Sphere-Music" is Jarl’s sixth album on Reverse Alignment, following on from 2021’s CD release "Spectrum Confusion". And once again Karolina Urbaniak has masterfully created the cover artwork, as she’s done for the five earlier Jarl releases for Reverse Alignment. Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that help nerve cells communicate with each other. Referring to this concept, "Neurotransmitters Sphere Music" consists of four pieces showcasing …
Misophonia Colours
*250 copies limited release.* Drone Records launches a new CD series named "SYM" which could be understood as a place holder for different notions and inner processes (such as Symmetrization, Symbiosis, Symbolization, forming an epistemological circle of inter- relations) - associated with the act of perceiving and understanding sound on a substantial level... old and new heroes from the past and future of experimental transcension atmo noises and drones. Swedish Jarl created an ultra hypnotic 6…
Mindrotation
*30 copies limited edition.* The new Jarl album is the Sixth on Zoharum. Like previous album Hyperacusis and Phonophobia, released in 2021, it deals with the human psyche. This time by turning inwards. Like often with Jarls sound the album has a sort of a psychedelic electronic sound.
Mind Rotation has 5 parts dealing with the human psyche. A rotation of the mind. The first two parts mind variation and mind dimension are among the brightest Jarl has ever recorded with arrpegio sequencer synthesi…
Spectrum Confusion
*200 copies limited edition.* Spectrum Confusion is Jarl’s fifth album on Reverse Alignment, following on from 2019’s massive triple CD release Symptoms Variation/ Sensory Deprivation. And once again Karolina Urbaniak has masterfully created the cover artwork, as she’s done for the four earlier Jarl releases, also released by RA. Spectrum Confusion consists of three long-form pieces showcasing his trademark psychedelic, hypnotic approach, but this time the presence of bubbling and pulsating soun…
S.F.A.G. / S.F.A.G. De-Composed
"Ante-facts : after the disintegrative period of my production (from “Symphony for a Genocide” to “Das Testament”), the purchase of a misanthropic echo-machine and the consequent decay of the electric-analogue machinery, my efforts was redirected to a pre-recording sound sublimation, so I started to re-compose the electronic metastasis of early times, filtering through dehumanizing effects of the echo-machine, keeping attention particularly to the explanatory process of my ancestral subjectivism…